The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-29
THE oDoR OF FRESH BLOOD.
The Marvellous Curative Powers of Fresh
Blood in Pulmonary Troubles.

The Marvellous Curative Powers of Fresh
Blood in Pulmonary Troubles.
New York NJ all and Express
Although consumption is as common and fatal
a complaint in South America as IN any other
portion of the globe. there is class of persons
resident in that country among whom the dread
scourge is said never to have appeared. These
are the inhabitants of the saladeros-a place
where cattle are slaughtered and dressed, and
where sometimes the manufacture of beef ex-
tract is carried gentleman recently re-
turned from Argentine Republic, in talking of
the subject with a reporter, yesterday. said:
SIN former years, cattle in my country, that is
South America, were slaughtered simply for
their hides bones and tallow, which were
articles of export The meat, except such as
the butchers in the different cities chose to carry
away. was stacked out on the plains and was
eaten up by quicklime. The places where the
work of killing the cattle was and is carried
were and are still known rs saladeros. They
are large inclosed spaces in the open country,
generally some distance remote from other haoi-
tations The people employed in the business
live within the inclosure and form a little col
ony by themselves
From five to ten thousand head of cattle are
slaughtered in these saladeros every day. Neces-
sarily there is a constant odor of fresh blood.
which to those unaccustomed to it is decidedly
unpleasant Consumption. however hae never
been known among persons who live in these
saladeros, and, strange as 1t may appear,
persons who were SO affected and
through some circumstances or another went
into of these places to live, have speedily
covered. At first the medical men of the country
reasoned that their diagnoses were in error, but
as the result WAS the same time after time they
came to look upon the matter in different
light and now declare that a residence in a
laderos will heal an ulcerating lung and entirely
destroy the germs of consumption The process
is slow. however, and a consumptive must be
patient and content to live in of these places
q considerable time.
Persons who go there and remain only a little
while show great improvement, but if they
come away before they are entirely well they
liable to relapse into their former state I'M
derstand that a residence of from eighteen
months two years in a saladeros will cure al
most any case of phthisis. One of the most
table cures, and one that was primarily the cause
of inquiries being made the subject,
was that of Donna Florentna de
Chiefs wife of jaime Clbels, of
the e rn of Cibels Hermauos of Buenos Ayres.
Shortly after her marriage she developed unmis
taxable signs of pulmonary trouble The dis
ease progressed until abe became very feeble
and the doctors advised her that she had but
short time to live. just about this time her hus
band was sent out to take personal charge of one
of his fathers saladeros. and Mrs. Cibels, though
almost dead, went with him. She had not lived
there many months before she began to show
signs of Improvement. She
main ed there with her husband for four years,
and when, at the end of that period, she left the
place, all symptoms of consumption had disap-
peared, and Mrs. Cibels to-day as healthy a
woman as lives in the republic"